Post Tagged with: "Lincoln Hospital"

NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln Hospital tapped Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to collaborate on a detailed training for community members and leaders to master the upcoming enrollment periods for Medicare and New York State of Health.

Public health officials are concerned that programs designed to treat asthma and other illnesses in low-income neighborhoods like the South Bronx could be doomed if the federal government moves ahead with plans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

Assaults A dispute between a brother and sister ended with a chokehold, police said. The siblings, who live together on East 152nd Street, argued at about 8 p.m. on Dec. 24. The brother, 19, choked his sister, 28, bruising her neck. He had left by the time cops arrived onRead More

Robbing for Apples The Charter High School for Engineering, Architecture and Construction Industries in Melrose fell victim to a crook who stole over $42,000 worth of laptops sometime in September, police from the 40th Precinct said. Principal Eugene Foley, who reported the theft, said the thieves had broken locks andRead More

Police are on the hunt for a 43-year-old Brooklyn man wanted in connection with the rape of his girlfriend early on the morning on Nov. 24. The victim, a 42-year-old resident of the Patterson Houses, called police later that night to report that she was raped earlier in the day.Read More

Body of 22-year-old Madonna Martin found in car A South Bronx man is being held without bail after prosecutors charged that he strangled a co-worker and drove her body to a deserted Port Morris intersection before dawn on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Richard Bloomfield was charged with second-degree murder andRead More

Father charged with raping daughter A 46-year-old man was charged with raping his 13-year-old daughter in their apartment on Wales Street on Oct. 28 around 12:30 p.m., police said. Officers responded to a 911 call, likely from the girl, police said. The man has been charged with rape in theRead More

Smart phone thefts Police are asking Mott Haven residents to be extra careful about displaying their smart phones in public, especially around housing projects and subway entrances and exits, in the face of a stubborn wave of robberies targeted at the devices. Residents reported a new flurry of such robberiesRead More